Role: Production and Logistics Flow Team Leader

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Leamington Spa

Role ID: 2026 – 3338

Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 per annum plus benefits

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

We are seeking a Production and Logistics Flow Team Leader to support the effective manufacturing flow within the workshop, ensuring parts are available in a timely manner to achieve the manufacturing plan.

Key Responsibilities

• The role will require a proactive hands-on approach spending 50% of your time on the shop floor and manufacturing areas gathering information and encouraging a pull/ push system.
• Supervise a small, dedicated team to achieve role specific actions.
• Ensure databases and updates are real-time so that the production schedule represents reality or as near to it as physically possible.
• Manage the availability and maintenance of appropriate packaging for the safe transportation whilst maintaining a damage-free environment.
• Ensure parts are fully trackable within the manufacturing environment and visual to the production control tracking database. 
• Ensure efficient Material/ Parts flow through manufacturing, in line with production schedule.
• Maintain effective logistical applications to safely transport material/part throughout the total manufacturing routes.
• Adherence to Quality systems/ processes and audits, Health & Safety procedures, including risk assessments within the area of responsibility.

 Key Competencies and Experience

• Demonstrable experience in a similar manufacturing environment using MRP systems and scheduling tools.
• Forward planning and forecasting are essential requirements to this role.
• Proven experience team supervisory of small interdependent team members.
• A collaborative approach to achieve Customer first objectives.
• Qualified to A level standard or completed a formal apprenticeship in a manufacturing environment.

Desirable

• To have worked in similar roles within a complex busy manufacturing site
• To have knowledge and experience within a Gear manufacturing site
• To have an in-depth knowledge of Lean principles

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.